The silversmith from Compostela

It directs scholars' attention towards unusual sources in their research, such as newspaper archives, municipal, tax, industrial, and commercial documentation, in addition to the well-known and always useful ecclesiastical or notarial sources, and, of course, the need to extend fieldwork to private collections, the commercial sphere of antique dealers, and auction houses.

The author never lost sight of the fact that she had to place the silversmith in his time according to the most current and valuable research methods. For this reason, she delves into the context of the Second inventio, institutions such as the Economic Society of Friends of the Country, regional exhibitions, the reactivation of medieval sentiment, eclectic trends, and at the same time modernism as artistic trends that shaped the cultural landscape in which Martínez Costoya moved.